#63
Include responsibilities for Diversity and Inclusion: change request pending

Promoting and supporting diversity in the workplace is an important aspect of good people management - it’s about valuing everyone in the organisation as an individual.
To realise the benefits of a diverse workforce it’s vital to have an inclusive environment where everyone feels able to participate and achieve their potential regardless of age, disability, race, religion, gender and sexual orientation among others.

In the world of IT - this is relevant far beyond the "moral" case. It includes closing both industry skills gaps and organisational skills gaps, understanding diverse customer needs and requirements, creating a highly engaged and productive workforce, effective collaboration and teamwork, good practice (e.g. eliminating unintentional bias) when recruiting, resourcing, performing skills assessment, user experience etc

Suggest some wording added to the Business Skills generic responsibilities - definitely at the higher end but possible at lower levels as well.

Definitions (from CIPD)

Diversity is where difference is recognised and emphasised, but not actively leveraged to drive organisational success. There is acknowledgement of the benefit of having a range of perspectives in decision-making and the workforce being representative of the organisation’s customers.

Inclusion is where difference is seen as a benefit to use, and where perspectives and differences are shared, leading to better decisions. An inclusive working environment is one in which everyone feels valued, that their contribution matters and they are able to perform to their potential, no matter their background, identity or circumstances. Essentially it enables a diverse range of people to work together effectively.

What we decided

Deferred. Additions made to generic business skills level 6 & 7. There maybe more to be done.

Will be kept in the backlog of change requests and considered during continuous consultation.

See also change request #49.

What we changed

Additions made to generic business skills level 6 & 7.

Ian Seward
says:

Nov 21, 2017 01:14 PM

Yep this makes sense. The BCS Digital Accessibility Specialist Group are going to provide some input in this too. Current thoughts?
- Are there Diversity and Inclusion skills missing?
- Possibly not as attributes of the system
- We can't list every possible attribute to be considered
- But lets have the discussion and see what DASG comes up with
- Are Digital and Inclusion aspects of 'soft skills'?
- Possibly be included in the Generics - Sounds reasonable
- We need to consider the website presentation
- Outside of Framework update but within scope of Website

More from DASG on request.

SFIA7 Project Manager (Peter Leather)
says:

Nov 29, 2017 12:23 PM

The correlation between creativity, diversity and the future tech workforce